Archibald Yell

Archibald Yell (9 August 1797-23 February 1847) was a member of the US House of Representatives (D-AR) from 5 December 1836 to 3 March 1839 (preceding Edward Cross) and from 1 December 1845 to 1 July 1846 (succeeding Cross and preceding Thomas Willoughby Newton) and Governor of Arkansas from 4 November 1840 to 29 April 1844 (succeeding James Sevier Conway and preceding Samuel Adams).

Biography
Archibald Yell was born in North Carolina in 1797, and his family settled in Kentucky and Tennessee. Yell served under Andrew Jackson during the Creek War and the Battle of New Orleans, and he joined the Freemasons and became Grand Master of the Tennessee Lodge in 1830. He moved to Arkansas in 1831 to head the federal land office in Little Rock, and he was elected the inaugural congressman from Arkansas in 1836, serving from 1836 to 1839 and from 1845 to 1846, with his terms being interrupted by his gubernatorial service. During the Mexican-American War, he was brevetted a Brigadier-General of Volunteers, and he was killed in action at the Battle of Buena Vista at the age of 49.